Cisco datacentre tools aim to speed up enterprise apps.

The article offers information on various products, technologies and technology trends in networked computing, announced by Cisco Systems Inc. in the Cisco Networkers 2008 conference held in Barcelona, Spain. It reports that Cisco will release more network management hardware and software under its Data Centre 3.0 product suite to speed the delivery of enterprise software applications. It also reports that the tools are designed to provide the network infrastructure and applications to run over the network, such as videoconferencing and voice communications. It mentions that several optimisation products announced at the conference included the Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) 4710 appliance, and Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) mobile software.